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"The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital need
by errcorrectcode 5y ago
"The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it." Some hospitals had to throw out medical equipment because they could not be cleaned. It's known to grow along IV tubing. Furthermore, aerosolized h2o2 at normal concentrations doesn't work against it. The concern is great because the list and number of classes of antimycotics is short.
Supposedly, this is primarily a disease of those with weakened immune systems. The issue is that community spread risks evolution into something even worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-can...